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Ill elaborate a bit on the cbj trade.
The jackets arent going to be trading their best forward, a 22 year old right shot defenseman, a 24 year old goalie a top 6 pick and a young middle 6 forward for a 30 year old center who has 2 years left on his deal and has a rift with laine, the other pieces are of no consequence as we have ample replacements for those positions.
We are retooling and trying to be better in the future, not now. This trade makes no sense for the jackets to make even if we took out bjorkstrand and boqvist. Moving out these pieces for mark doesn't make us much better now than we would be by holding onto these players. It definitely doesn't open up a cup contender window. But we we draft and develop right, our window could open in 2 years from now.